1- Atmā, or Jiva, "the One Life", which
permeates the Monadic Trio. (One in three
and three in One)

1- Prāna, the Breath of Life, the same as
Nephesh. At the death of a livinb being, Prāna
re-becomes Jiva *

2- Auric envelope; because the substratum of 2- Linga Sharira, the Astral Form,
the transitory
the Aura around man is the universally emanation of the Auric Egg. This form
precedes
diffused primordial and pure Akāsha, the first the formation of the living Body,
and after death
film on the boundless and shoreless expanse clings to it, dissipating only with
the
of Jiva, the immutable Root of all disappearance of its last atom (the skeleton
excepted).

3- Buddhi; for Buddhi is a ray of the Universal
Spiritual Soul (ALAYA)
3- Lower Manas, the Animal Soul, the reflection
or shadow of the Buddhi-Manas, having the
potentialities of both, but conquered generally
by its association with the Kāma elements.

4- Manas (the Higher Ego); for it proceeds
from Mahat, the first product or emanation of
Pradhāna, which contains potentially all the
Gunas (attributes). Mahat is Cosmic
Intelligence, called the "Great Principle".
[Remember that our reincanating Egos are
called the Mānasaputras, "Sons of Manas"
(or Mahat), Intelligence, Wisdom ]

* - Prāna, on earth at any rate, is thus but a mode of life, a constant cyclic
motion from within
outwardly and back again, an out-breathing and in-breathing of the One Life, or
Jiva, the
synonym of the Absolute and Unknowable Deity. Prāna is not absolute life, or
Jiva, but its
aspect in a world of delusion. In the Theosophist, May 1888, page 478, Prāna is
said to be
"one stage finer than the gross matter of the earth."

As the lower man is the combined product of two aspectsphysically, of his
Astral Form, and psychophysiologically
of Kāma-Manashe is not looked upon even as an aspect, but as an illusion.

The Auric Egg, on account of its nature and manifold functions, has to be well
studied. As
Hiranyagarbha, the Golden Womb or Egg, contains Brahmā, the collective symbol of
the Seven
Universal Forces, so the Auric Egg contains, and is directly related to, both
the divine and the physical
man. In its essence, as said, it is eternal; in its constant correlations and
transformations, during the
reincarnating progress of the Ego on this earth, it is a kind of perpetual
motion machine.

As given out in our second volume, the Egos or Kumāras, incarnating in man, at
the end of the Third
Root-Race, are not human Egos of this earth or plane, but become such only from
the moment they
ensoul the Animal Man, thus endowing him with his Higher Mind. Each is a
Breath or Principle, called
the Human Soul, or Manas, the Mind. As the teachings say:

Each is a pillar of light. Having chosen its vehicle, it expanded, surrounding
with an Ćkāshic Aura the
human animal, while the Divine (Mānasic) Principle settled within that human
form.

Ancient Wisdom teaches us, moreover, that from this first incarnation, the Lunar
Pitris, who had made
men out of their Chhāyās or Shadows, are absorbed by this Auric Essence, and a
distinct Astral Form is
now produced for each forthcoming personality of the reincarnating series of
each Ego.

The Auric Egg (Page 495) Thus the Auric Egg, reflecting all the thoughts, words
and deeds of man is:

(angel) The preserver of every Karmic record.

(beer) The storehouse of all the good and evil powers in man, receiving and
giving out at his willnay, at his
very thoughtevery potentiality which becomes, then and there, an acting
potency: this Aura is the
mirror in which sensitives and clairvoyants sense and perceive the real man, and
see him as he is, not
as he appears.

(coffee) As it furnished man with his Astral Form, around which the physical
entity models itself, first as a
foetus, then as a child and man, the astral growing apace with the human being,
so it furnishes him
during life, if an Adept, with his Māyāvic Rūpa, or Illusion Body, which is not
his Vital-Astral Body; and
after death, with his Devachanic Entity and Kāma Rūpa, or Body of Desire (the
Spook). [It is erroneous
to call the fourth human principle Kāma Rūpa. It is no Rūpa or form at all
until after death, but stands
for the Kāmic elements in man, his animal desires and passions, such as anger,
lust, envy, revenge, etc.,
the progeny of selfishness and matter.]

In the case of the Devachanic Entity, the Ego, in order to be able to go into a
state of bliss, as the I of
its immediately preceding incarnation, has to be clothed (metaphorically
speaking) with the spiritual
elements of the ideas, aspirations and thoughts of the now disembodied
personality; otherwise what is it
that enjoys bliss and reward? Surely not the impersonal Ego, the Divine
Individuality. Therefore it must
be the good Karmic records of the deceased, impressed upon the Auric Substance,
which furnish the
Human Soul with just enough of the spiritual elements of the ex-personality, to
enable it to still believe
itself that body from which it has just been severed, and to receive its
fruition, during a more or less
prolonged period of spiritual gestation. For Devachan is a spiritual
gestation within an ideal matrix
state, a birth of the Ego into the world of effects, which ideal, subjective
birth precedes its next terrestrial
birth, the latter being determined by its bad Karma, into the world of
causes.[Here the world of effects is
the Devachanic state, and the world of causes, earth life.]

In the case of the Spook, the Kāma Rūpa is furnished from the animal dregs of
the Auric Envelope, with
its daily Karmic record of animal life, so full of animal desires and selfish
aspirations. [It is this Kāma
Rūpa alone that can materialize in mediumistic séances, which occasionally
happens when it is not the
Astral Double or Linga Sharīra, of the medium himself which appears. How, then,
can this vile bundle of
passions and terrestrial lusts, resurrected by, and gaining consciousness only
through the organism of
the medium, be accepted as a departed angel or the Spirit of a once human
body? As well say of the
microbic pest which fastens on a person, that it is a sweet departed angel.]

(Page 496) Now the Linga Sharira remains with the Physical Body, and fades out
along with it. An astral
entity then has to be created, a new Linga Sharīra provided, to become the
bearer of all the past Tanhas
and future Karma. How is this accomplished? The mediumistic Spook, the departed
angel, fades out
and vanishes also in its turn [This is accomplished in more or less time,
according to the degree in which
the personality (whose dregs it now is) was spiritual or material. If
spirituality prevailed, then the Larva, or
Spook, will fade out very soon; but if the personality was very materialistic,
the Kāma Rūpa may last for
centuries andin some, though very exceptional caseseven survive with the help
of some of its
scattered Skandhas, which are all transformed in time into Elementals. See the
Key to Theosophy, pp.
141 et seq., in which it was impossible to go into details, but where the
Skandhas are spoken.] as an
entity or full image of the personality that was, and leaves in the Kāmalokic
world of effects only the
record of its misdeeds and sinful thoughts and acts, known in the phraseology of
Occultists as Tānhic or
human Elementals. Entering into the composition of the Astral Form of the new
body, into which the Ego,
upon its quitting the Devachanic state, is to enter according to Karmic decree,
the Elementals form that
new astral entity which is born within the Auric Envelope, and of..

[8/18/2012 6:43:22 PM] Van Atman: 1. Embryo. 2. Amniotic Fluid, immediately
surrounding the Embryo. 3. Amnion, a membrane
derived from the Foetus, which contains the fluid. 4. Umbilical lesicle, which
serves to convey
nourishment originally to the Embryo and to nourish it.

Seven Correspondential Contents - (Page 441) 5. Allantois, a protrusion from the
Embryo in the form of a closed bag, which spreads itself between 3 and 7, in the
midst of 6,
and which, after being specialized into the Placenta, serves to conduct
nourishment to the
Embryo. 6. Interspace between 3 and 7 (the Amnion and Chorion), filled with an
albuminous
fluid. 7. Chorion, or outer layer.

Now, each of these seven contents severally corresponds with, and is formed
after, an
antetype, one on each of the seven planes of being with which in their turn
correspond the
seven states of Matter and all other forces, sensational or functional, in
Nature.

(Page 442)
The following is a birds-eye view of the seven correspondential contents of the
wombs of
Nature and of Woman. We may contrast them thus:
Cosmic Process (Upper Pole) Human Process (Lower Pole)

1 The mathematical Point, called the "Cosmic
See", the Monad of Leibnix; which contians
the whole Universe, as the acorn the oak.
This is the first bubble on the surface of
boundless homogeneous Substance, or
Space, the buble of differentiation in its
incipient stage. It is the beginning of the
Orphic or Brahmā's Egg. It corresponds in
The terrestrial Embryo, which contains in it the
future man with all his potentialities. In the
series of principles of the human system it is
the Atman, or the super-spiritual principle, just
as in the physical Solar System it is the Sun
Astrology and Astronomy to the Sun

2
The vis vitae of our solar system exudes
from the Sun.
(angel) It is called, when referred to the higher
planes, Akāsha

(beer) It proceeds from the ten "divinities" the
ten numbers of the Sun, which is itself the
"Perfect Number". These are called Dis - in
reality Space - the forces spread in Space,
three of which are contained in the Sun's
Atman, or seventh principle, and seven are
the rays shot out by the Sun.

The Amniotic Fluid exudes from the Embryo.
(angel) It is called, on the plane of matter, Prāna
[ Prāna is in reality the universal Life Principle.]

(beer) It proceeds, taking its source in the universal
One Life, from the heart of man and Buddhi,
over which the Seven Solar Rays (Gods)
preside.

3
The Ether of Space, which, in its external
aspect, is the plastic crust which is supposed
to envelope the Sun. On the higher plane it is
the whole Universe, as the third
differentiation of evolving Substance,
Mulaprakriti becoming Prakriti.
(angel) It corresponds mystically to the
manifested Mahat, or the Intellect or Soul of
the World

The Amnion, the membrane containing the
Amniotic Frluid and enveloping the Embryo.
After the birth of man it becomes the third layer,
so to say, of his magneto-vital aura.
(angel) Manas, the third principle (counting from
above), or the Human Soul in Man.

4
The sidereal contents of Ether, the
substantial parts of it, unknown to Modern
Science, represented:

(angel) In Occult and Kabalistic Mysteries, by
Elementals.

(beer) In physical Astronomy, by
meteors,comets, and all kinds of casual and
phenomenal cosmic bodies
Umbilical Vesicle, serving, as Science teaches,
to nourish the Embryo originally, but, as Occult
Science avers, to carry to the Foetus by
osmosis the cosmic influences extraneous to
the mother.

(angel) In the grown man these become the feeders
of Kāma, over which they preside.
(beer) In the physical man, his passions and
emotions, the moral meteors and comets of
human nature.

5
Life currents in Ether, having their origin in
the Sun: the canals through which the vital
principle of that Ether (the blood of the
Cosmic Body) passes to nourish everything
on the Earth and on the other Planets: from
the minerals, which are thus made to grow
and become specialized, from the plants,
which are thus fed, to animal and man, to
whom life is thus imparted.

The Allantois, a protrusion from the Embryo,
which spreads itself between the Amnion and
Chorion; it is supposed to conduct the
nourishment from the mother to the Embryo. It
corresponds to the life-principle, Prāna or Jīva.

6
The double radiation, psychic and physical,
which radiates from the Cosmic Seed and
expands around the whole Kosmos, as well
as around the Solar System and every
Planet. In Occultism it is called the upper
divine, and the lower material, Astral Light.

The Allantois is divided into two layers. The
inter space between the Amnion and the
Chorion contains the Allantois and also an
albuminous fluid. [All the uterine contents,
having a direct spiritual connnection with their
cosmic antetypes, are, on the physical plane,
potent objects in Black Magic, and are therefore
considered unclean.]

7 The outer crust of every sidereal body, the
Shell of the Mundane Egg, or the sphere of
The Chorion, or the Zona Pellucida, the
globular object called Blastodermic Vesicle, the
our Solar System, of our Earth, and of every
man and animal. In sidereal space, Ether
proper; on the terrestrial plane, Air, which
again is built in seven layers.

outer and the inner layers of the membrane of
which go to form the physical man. The outer,
or ectoderm, forms his epidermis; the inner, or
endoderm, his muscles, bones, etc.. Man's
skin, again, is composed of seven layers.
(angel) The "primitive" becomes the "permanent"
Chorion.

Correspondence Between Races and Man - (Page 443) Even in the evolution of the
Races we see the same order as in Nature and Man. [See supra, ii. Part I.]
Placental animalman
became such only after the separation of sexes in the Third Root-Race. In the
physiological evolution, the placenta is fully formed and functional only after
the third month
of uterine life.